Judiciary: Court vacation is not leave for Judicial Officers

The Judiciary has responded to Daily Monitor’s editorial on July 19 2017 on page 16 titled: “Judiciary should abolish vacation for its officers”. In a press release issued by the recently appointed Public Relations Officer H.W Vincent Emmy Mugabo and circulated to the media on July 20 2017, the Judiciary characterized the content of the editorial as “misleading”. “The Editorial is not only misleading, but it is devoid of basic facts about the workings of the Ugandan courts. It, in fact, paints a very disgraceful impression that our judicial officers do not work for nearly 200 days in a year", the statement reads.